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“The company pension scheme is a mandatory part of an appreciative benefits strategy.” Helge Kniepen, Head of HR Competence & Payroll at Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli and speaker at the Total Rewards practice forum, is convinced of this. A company pension scheme (bAV) should not be missing from a good benefits strategy. This component of the benefit portfolio is also very important to the chocolate factories Lindt & Sprüngli. The company also ensures that young talents also have their retirement planning in mind. Helge Kniepen will reveal how this works at the Total Rewards practice forum on May 5th in…
Shared Service Centers (SSC) have been considered the standard model for increasing efficiency in HR organizations for years. The underlying logic is simple: transactional tasks are bundled, standardized and relocated to lower-cost regions. Typical business cases calculate savings of 20 to 40 percent. In practice, however, a much more differentiated picture emerges – especially when hidden costs and structural effects are taken into account. Cost assumptions often fall short
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, defended this Wednesday the extraordinary regularization of immigrants promoted by the Government. In an interview with RNE, Saiz regretted that the Popular Party now criticizes the measure despite the fact that in the past it supported similar initiatives, even from La Moncloa, and has disfigured the proposal supported by Vox and PP that links immigration with terrorism. According to the Government spokesperson, the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo is “subject” to agreements made by the extreme right.During the defense of the presentation promoted by the PP, debated at noon…
The two underground galleries that linked Morocco and Ceuta to traffic drugs and that have been located by security forces in just over a year were designed by an alleged trafficker whom the Police have nicknamed the “narcoarchitect” or the “patron of the tunnels.” This is Mustafá Chairi B., a Moroccan businessman with a background and resident in the town of Fnideq (formerly Castillejos), neighboring Ceuta. Owner of several businesses, Mustafá Chairi B. was arrested on March 26 in the autonomous city in Operation Ares, which has allowed the dismantling of “the hashish network of networks” that he allegedly controlled,…
Shared Service Centers (SSC) were considered a classic entry point into HR. But our columnist Heike Gorges explains whether this is still worth it in times of automation and AI. For a long time, HR operations – often organized in shared service centers – was considered a classic entry into the HR world. Here you get to know employment contracts, personnel processes, HR systems and the organizational processes of a company. But with increasing automation, self-service portals and AI, this field of work is changing. Many young HR professionals are therefore asking themselves: Is HR Operations still a sensible starting…
The City Council of Lloret de Mar (Girona) has agreed to unblock the coastal path that passes through the estate of former Kazakh president Nursultán Nazarbayev, now pending the approval of the municipal plenary session.According to the council, the agreement, after years of litigation due to the property’s opposition to allowing access to a public route, will redefine the path.The work will be carried out by the property through the company Flinder Data, which will undertake both the drafting of the planning and the execution.The new route, according to the City Council, is designed to recover “the essence of the…
The Chancellor does not commit to exact figures for the repatriation of Syrians. Israel’s parliament approves the death penalty – but only for Palestinians. And the whale and wolf show the unequal distribution of our love for animals. This is the situation on Tuesday evening.
Two years ago, on April 1, 2024, the law partially legalizing cannabis came into force. Ownership and home cultivation are generally legal, but resale, for example, is not. There was great excitement at the time, including in the country’s human resources departments. Contrary to some fears, cannabis consumption among 18 to 64 year olds has not risen sharply in the short term, as a new study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) shows. Recently, voices have repeatedly been raised in society and politics calling for a renewed ban on cannabis. “Initial studies after partial legalization do not…
ANDALUSIA ELECTIONSThe coalition announces that it has invited the purple party to a meeting one day before the end of the deadline The federal coordinator of IU and Por Andalucía candidate for the Presidency of the Board, Antonio Maíllo, on March 28.IU MÁLAGA (IU MÁLAGA)Andalusia has called a meeting of the coalition’s party table for next Thursday, April 2, with the aim of finalizing its formal registration. Forces that make up the coalition, including Podemos, have been summoned to this meeting, according to sources from Por Andalucía.(Last minute. There will be an extension soon)Your subscription is being used on another…
The range of AI tools is constantly growing, as are the possible uses. Even at work. A new study now shows that 19.3 percent of employees in the HR sector suffer from AI-induced “brain fry”, especially when three or more AI tools are used in parallel. “AI Brain Fry” is the name given to an exhaustion phenomenon studied by researchers at the Boston Consulting Group. Symptoms include headaches, mental fog, and slower decision-making. For the study, 1,488 full-time employees from large US companies were surveyed across industries. Central finding: According to the authors, if three tools are used in parallel,…